Background*

Ambassador. Edward P. Djerejian, also known as Ed, served as United States Ambassador to Israel from 1993 to 1994. Ambassador. Djerejian has over 30 years in the United States Foreign Service and served as an Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs under President Bush and Clinton from 1991 to 1993. He served as U.S. Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic from 1988 to 1991, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1986 ... to 1988, as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1986. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service for eight President, from John F. Kennedy to William J. Clinton from 1962 to 1994. Ambassador. Djerejian served in the United States Army as a first Lieutenant in Korea. He is a leading expert on the complex political, security, economic, religious and ethnic issues of the Middle East. Throughout his distinguished career, he has developed an in-depth knowledge of a broad range of public policy issues, and expertise in foreign policy, geopolitics of energy and corporate governance. He also has experience serving on several public, private and nonprofit boards. Ambassador. Djerejian served as the Chairman of the Board for Occidental Petroleum Corporation from May 2013 to May 1, 2015 and served as its a Director from 1996 to May 1, 2015. He has been Founding Director of James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy at Rice University since August 1994. He serves as a Director of Incom Roofing Services Inc. and Epok, Inc. He has been an Independent Director of The Mexico Fund, Inc. since March 13, 2013. He served as a Director of Baker Hughes Incorporated from 2001 to April 28, 2011 and Global Industries Ltd. from February 1996 to December 1, 2011. He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He received the Department of State's Distinguished Service Award in 1993 and the President's Distinguished Service Award in 1994. He also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Anti-Defamation League’s Moral Statesman Award. He is also a recipient of the Association of Rice Alumni’s Gold Medal, the groups most prestigious award, for his service to Rice University. In 2011, Ambassador. Djerejian was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ambassador. His book “Danger and Opportunity. He graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1960, holds an honorary doctorate in humanities from Georgetown in 1992 and a doctorate of laws, honoris causa from Middlebury College in 2004.

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